Doesn't Carbon Dating Disprove the Bible?

Question

Carbon Dating, which is undoubtedly accurate and proven so, has shown that there are rock layers layed down hundreds of millions of years ago. The Bible refers to the age of the earth as 4,000 years right?

Please Give An Intelligent Response. Not Just Science is Wrong.

Answer 1

Sorry for disagree with you, but no scientist affirms that Carbon Dating is "undoubtedly accurate and proven so", always.
This method is accurate for dates up to 4000 years. Beyond this, it is very very inaccurate. And questionable.
For a brief explanation, there is a great difference between interpolation and extrapolation.
Interpolation is more reliable than extrapolation. For up to 4000 years is used interpolation, beyond this extrapolation is used .
For example, if an airplane is flying over Liberty State Park and 10 minutes ago it was over Central Park, you can guess and say pretty sure that it was over West Side Highway 5 minutes ago. It is interpolation.
But you can't be sure where it will be next 5 minutes, and less sure the next hour. Because is an extrapolation.
The subject is very complex, but you can see more in the book listed below.
By the way, the age of the Universe is 5767 years.
Good luck.

Answer 2

Carbon dating pretty much proves the Great Flood that Noah rode out on the Arc. I found an article recently that discusses this very topic and many others. vey interesting:

"Another fact that the highly vaunted geologic column (as drawn by artists) is often stacked wrong, there are gaps, often layers lie in "the wrong order" or even upside down. And sometimes a geologist, archaeologist, or mining operation will be digging along and come across a few large logs upright and transversing what an evolutionist would have called "millions of years" but what a creationist would look at and see evidence of the Great Flood from the time of Noah - an Earth covered with a myriad of sedimentary rocks, often hundreds of feet deep and formed under great (though temporary, lasting under a year) pressure. In the forests near your home do you see dead trees that have stayed upright and undisturbed for the past few millions of years? Of course not! In some places ants won't leave picnickers alone for even one hour before moving in on the target. Insects and microbes are constantly on the look out for decay and unprotected food to take advantage of. Upright tree trunks are mute testimony to rapid, deep sedimentary deposition. Evolutionary theory, as currently believed, requires structural modification or to be completely replaced with an entirely different theory of our ancient origins.

The Flood theory can readily handle strata which, by exception, stacks in "evolutionary" order. The creationist can also discuss layers which have stacked "upside-down" - since they’re not such - if the Flood is a historical event. Evolutionists though, must conjure up a myriad of exceptions when dealing with the real fossil evidence we see in the world today. (These exceptions often require more faith than does the Bible’s historical account of what happened!)"

Answer 3

No it does not, the bible is a collection of journals or diaries if you will during the times of Christ and long before. They are beautiful stories of people trying to place down on parchment what they have see and been promised. Its just that, a beautiful book. I am a Pagan High priestess and I have found the different bibles or prophets in the bible to be rather accurate, take whats going on in the middle east, then read the hebrew prophet Eziekal. He was an amazing prophet. Nothing mor than see'rs. I encouraage anyone to read the scriptures thru the political lense. Think about if you wrote a book and put in itall you see, and all you have been through and someone finds it 2500 years from now and reads it. Same thing. TThe big bang theory is also supposed to be true. What is it you believe?
Blessings
Rev. KellySue Thomson

Answer 4

I agree, the bible is disproved about the age of the earth, i think carbon dating is very accurate. And for those who still think we were magically plopped here from a ribbone and the water and everything else was magical too, i think you are all on something. Seriously its not magic folks, its science.

Answer 5

God never meant anyone to know the age of the earth, if so there wouldn't be any question about it's age, creation would be easily answered, there would be no mystery. We would know if He created the earth in 6 days, each a 24hr period, 12hr, or like in His time, a day is like unto a thousand years. Carbon dating isn't infallible, it has been wrong.

So no, carbon dating does not, will never, disprove the Bible.

Answer 6

I saw an interview with Willard Libby - who invented carbon dating. Even HE says it's not that accurate.

It can only be used to date organic LIVING material. It cannot give dates for rocks that are millions of years old.

Answer 7

No the Bible doesn't refer to the age of the earth at all...

people who interpret the Bible ESTIMATE that the earth is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old based on their translation of the passages that deal with creation.

There are Christians who believe in an old earth and I am one of them. I believe that the earth is 4 billion years old but I believe it was through creation not evolution

Answer 8

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The beginning is probably billions of years ago.

It is possible the creation days are 7,000 years long because he rested on the 7th day, and the day of rest is not over yet, according to the Bible.

It is Adam and Eve that were created about 6,000 years ago.

Answer 9

Just a couple minor corrections.

The age of the earth is not determined from Carbon Dating but from other isotopes with much longer half lives.

Creationists claim 6000 years based on adding up lifespans of who begot who.

Answer 10

Carbon Dating is not used for anything over one hundred thousand years due to the short half-life of Carbon 14.

You must be thinking of other radiometric dating techniques.